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Features Selection

Selection menu

The menu Selection regroups the following options:

  • Select (V)
  • Select by Feature ID…
  • Clear Selection (Ctrl+Alt+S)
  • Invert Selection

To select features you first have to activate the selection tool with:

  • the menu Selection
  • with the iconeminitool-selection.jpg
  • with the V shortcut

you can either make a simple or multiple selection.

  • Single selection: just click on the object you want to select
    or select the object with its ID using the option select by object ID…
  • Multiple selection: maintain the [SHIFT] key while clicking on the objects
    or create a rectangular gohst with your mouse, all the objects within the rectangle will be selected

Information window

Feature tab

The information window is accessible with the menu windowinformation window. When selecting one or several features, it allows you to display the attributes of each selected feature.

  1. Selected feature ID
  2. Features type and attributes

By right-clicking on a feature ID you can access to a contextual menu with the following operations.

  • Move to: center the screen on the selected feature
  • Zoom to: adjust the scale to display the selected feature on the whole screen. (this option does not work for the point type layers)
  • Remove from selection: remove a feature from your selection
  • Select this object only: unselect all the other features in your selection
  • Copy data to clipboard: copy the informations of the selected feature

Layer tab

The Layer tab of the Information window displays all the informations on the layer in edition (Layer of the selected features).